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\EK FINED TER TRUCK hits WOMAN ilia PATTERSON VICTIM J C (,I,KNT at MMEDALE THl'KSDAY ;ss I)l!l> INU CHARGKD MhJilni, l«. WJ ,,av ‘ , vers LM'nsf. Woman Not Seriously Injured Alice Patterson, Limedale, an injured arm when struck ump truck driven by Donald 18, of Terre Haute, in Liniegbout 7:30 o'clock Thursday en was hauling crushed stone Greencastle to Seeleyville for notion of pavement on road 40. driving toward Greencastle the accident occurred, rding to Whalen, he was drivis large International truck h Limedale. and just north of trance to the cement plant an automobile in front of around a loaded lime truck, he passed the lime truck he e automobile in front of him to pull over to the right side road. To avoid crashing into ar of the automobile, he jami his brakes. Whalen’s truck for some distance on the paveand then veered to the east side e highway. The truck’s rear left the pavement and the bed e truck struck Mrs. Patterson e walked along the side of the After striking the woman, en regained control of his vei after making an S turn back west edge of the highway and on the pavement again, alen stopped and found Mrs. irson suffered a painfully cut m, but the bone was not broken the violent contact with the bed. young man was taken into y by the Putnam county shorten it was found he carried no ■’s license. He was arraigned ■ Justice of the Pi ace Robert ent oh a cnarge 6f reckless [ and fined a total of $16.35. will pay for medical atten>r Mrs. Patterson.

Her Slacks Banned

} To Probe WPA Charges In Indiana SHINUTON, Aug. 20, (UP) — Works Progress Administration instructed Wayne Coy, Indiana director, to investigate Repufinational committee charges of and inefficiency among WPA era there. Republicans alleged that it WPA $7to move 1,000 bricks, that sewer construction costs excessive. • talking to WPA officials from apohs by lorg distance telee. blamed the figures on cold ( ther last winter. e explained that WPA workers kept indors for 40 days and reed pay during that per iod because heir need. tA instructed Coy to make a P'ete investigation and report

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Religious services at St. Joseph's Catholic church at Babylon, I,. I . were thrown into an uproar when the Rev. James A. Smith ejrctcd Rina Breen. 21, because she appeared in church wearing slacks. When Rena was first ordered out she returned home and donned a jacket. On her retur n the Rev. Smith again a Ivised her that she was wearing insufficient clothing and proceeded to enforce his views by personally conducting her from the church.

Drought Worse In Grain Sialic

a l lie veals I Mot r° Kill Josef Stalin 0SCOW, Aug. 20 (UP)—Drac ' letails a plot to kill Josef Win, Soviet leader, and convert ['j" auss ' a through terrorism to ;* WM described as a Trotzky- . lst re 8ime, were revealed today e trial of id men accused of

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' leading defendants are Gregln<n ‘ t ’ v and Leo Kamenev, both Bolshevists who turned nst the Stalin brand of communPleaded guilty and confessed y antl cve h boastingly to the a,lmiUc(l that he had or[kiil suun rmer SCCreUry ’ Bo K dcn ’ 101 “KtiREES TODAY v th i ? ' as thc thircl straight w ln t local recidents have sweltLeg r * mP f ratUreS rangin * above -I h l ' • Slnce ‘he intense drought *Z? r Z or July At2p m ' laximim, hernrometer recorded a lat o,° f 101 an(1 indications were ' la te aftl'nio^ y might g ° highCr ^'es Bergen, son of Mr. and has i ' gen ' Binc °lh avenue, eiitnonia ^ 3erioU8 ly ill \vith )s reported improving.

CORN SOARS TO 1B-AEXK TOP OF $1.37—MISSOURI AND IOWA CROP SCANTY CHICAGO, Aug. 20. Corn prices jumped to the highest peak since the post-war period yesterday as weather bureau crop experts reported the drought was growing worse in the farm belt. Quotations rose as high as $1.37 a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade, again passing wheat in reversal of normal market eonditionc The previous high was $2.17 in 1920 with an all-time record of $2.36 in August.

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Corn futures, wheat, oats and rye hit 1936 highs in the wake of reports of continuing heat on western plains. Although the weather bureau saw thundershowers as possible relief for stifling Kansas and Oklahoma today, the bureau’s crop observers said general conditions in the drought region were growing steadily warse. “Devastation became more widespread’’ in the corn and wheat growing states during the last week thc bureau’s weekly bulletin asserted, describing recent hot weather as “decidedly unfavorable’’ to crops. “There will be little com in most of the plains states, much of Missouri, parts of Iowa and In some areas east of the Mississippi river,” the bulletin continued Fanners, it said, were everywhere giving up hope of a crop nnd making efforts to “salvage as much as possible for fodder and roughage ” Water and feed for live sto< k were reported “increasingly scarce” with “forced movement of stock continued in many western and central sections.” Rain foil in “appreciable amounts” only in very small, scattered areas during thc week, the bulletin said. Increasing requests for movement of livestock came from farmers in Iowa despite showers in that state. The Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington ordered a 25 per cent cut in railroad rates on cattle shipments from Oklahoma and Kansas to Texas.

MUNITIONS SENT SPAIN FROM MEXICO SI I’I’I.IKS RKI’ORTKD AS BEING SIIII’I’EI) TO 1.04 A LISTS FORCES Ml \\4 FIGHTING < ONTINTE.S Government Troops Contact Rebels At Three Points. Britain, Germany Issue St i, t Orders. MEXICO CIT4’. Aug. 20, (UP) — More than 30 railway car loads of war munitions are enroute to the Spanish government from Mexico City, reliable informants said today. Confirmation of the destination, and of the implication that the aid to the left wing government of Spain came from the left wing government of Mexico would be calculated not only to shatter any hope ot a neutrality agreement in the revolt but to enrage Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, leaders of the fascist-nazi governments of Italy and Germany. What their response might be was conjecturable. It was learned definitely that the munitions, arms and ammunition, left Mexico City for Vera Cruz in two special trains yesterday, one in midafternoon, the other at 7 p. m. SAN SEBASTIAN, Aug. 20 (UP' Loyalists, faced with the alternative of victory or death, awaited a rebel assault in mass at Irun today. Their leaders ordered women and children all men will be in the fight to exacuate the city when the attack starts and wade the shallow Bidassoa river into France, so that they will be able to fight in the streets unimpeded. MADRID. Aug. 20. (UP) Loyalists arc in fighting contact on three fronts with rebels advancing against Madrid from the west, southwest ami north, it was disclosed today. Col. Julio Mangada, commanding loyalists in thc Nvalperal sector west of Madrid, telephoned the government for 1.500 more ii cn. expecting an early rebel attack on his posi-

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Native Moors from Morocco are in the forces advancing from the west and southwest, it was disclosed A loyalist column which has been weeks on the roads from the east, on thc way to aid the government here, met a force of Moorish Regulars and fascists at Puerto de San Vicente, only 95 miles southwest of Madrid. It was announced that the loyalists defeated the rebels in the San Vicente pass, a strategically important spot in the Guadelupe mountains there, and sent them retreating toward Guadelupe. A strong government c >lumn sent from Madrid defeated a rebel force moving eastward at Namilmoral. 95 miles west of the capital and near Puerto do San Vicente. W'.th thc aid of loyalist airplanes which, it was asserted, started fires in Navalmoral and permitted thc loalists to occupy the city. In the belief that the rebels were repulsed only for the moment the government dispatched more men there. This seemed to he the situation at Col. Mangada’e important Navalperal post in the Guadarrama mountains LONDON, Aug. 20. (UP) — The British government, trying to bolster by its own example the lagging European negotiations foi neutrality in the Spanish civil war, issued through the air ministiy today a warning threatening cancellation or suspension of the flying license of any aviator who aids cither side. BERLIN, Aug. 20, (UP) German warships were ordered today to protect German shipping “by all means” from interference by Spanish government vessels outside the three-mile limit of Spanish territorial waters.

( ASK DISMISSED SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 20 Superior Judge Raglan C Puttie late yesterday dismissed the case of Drs. Tilton E. Tillman and Samuel G. Boyd, on trial for mayhem foi the sterilization of Ann Cooner Hewitt, young heiress. Judge Tuttle held the prosecution had failed to establisl i case against the defendants, and ieeUred sterilization is not prohibi'c.l undci California laws. Miss Hewitt’s moth' : Mrs. Maryon Cooper Hewitt, and the young woman’s guardians had > tr cited to the operation, Judge Tutl declared. “If in giving consent tiie mother had evil or ulteric motives, such facts were not proven in any degree and there was no pro.ii whatever thc defendants were acting in had faith,” the ruling stated.

Push Manhunt for Club Killer

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i'ruiidciit Was In Intiivleale.l Condition. Held B\ I steal AuthuriC ■ s A man giving his name as James Droney, age 35, was injured when lie fell from a north bound Monc.n freight train about 6:20 o’clock Wednesday evening. According to reports the transient appeared in the Monon restaurant on north Jackson street about 5 o’clock He caused some disturbance and persons who saw him stated he was acting queerly. At 6:36 the extra 500 north bound Monon freight started moving. Droney rushed from the restaurant and tried to “hop” the moving train. As he attempted to clamber up the side of a car, he fell and rolled for several feet along tire platform at the station. For a while it was feared the man was dead as he lay for some time on the platform, showing no signs of life, a physician arriving with the city marshal examined Droney. It was found the man suffered from numerous bruises but was not seriously injured. His unconscious condition was the result of intoxicants and was “out cold" for sometime. He was lodged in the local jail overnight. Droney received i much needed bath and means were found to remove a 3-inch beard from his face. The man had no money and his only possession was a half-empty bag of tobacco. He is being heh for further investigation. FKKL04VSIIIP MEETING The annual fellowship meeting of the Christian etr ches of Putnam county will bo held at Somerset Christian church Sunday, Aug. 30. The pitch-in dinner will follow Sunday school and church services at 12 o’clock. MAKES KK( ORD TRIP UAKEHURST, N J., Aug. 20. The dirigible Hindi nhurg landed with a record passenger list at the naval air station last ni lit for what was expected to be the quickest turnaround in tians-At antic airship service. Capt. Ernst Lehmann of the huge Zeppelin said he pi mned to take off for his home port Frankfort, Germany, as soon as the Hindcnburg could be refueled and regassed. Ldeut. Commandt r C. V. Knox of the air station, who was m charge of servicing the ship, estimated the minimum possible time at “7 hours ami 47 minutes.” The craft landed at 6:39 p. m., carrying 58 passengers.

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Colorado authorities launched the most intensive manhunt in the southwest in the past decade following the brutal murder of 15-year-old Dorothy Drain of Pueblo and attack on her younger sister. Barbara. 12. shown above in hospital The killer clubbed the two girls as they lay In bed at their home, apparently about midnight when their parents. Mr and Mrs Riley Drain, and brother, Billy, were absent.

TWO CARS CRASH Two cars were slightly damaged near here at 5:30 o’clock Wednesday evening when Robert Mix of Oak Park, 111., made a right turn at the intersection of the Crow and Stilesville roads, 1 mile east of Greencastle and crashed into the automobile driven by Mrs. Robert Huller of Fillmore. Tlie right front of Mix's car and the front bumper and left fender of thc Huller car were slightly damaged. Neither driver was injured.

Dnnomitic Rally Friday INijrhl J C’

Landon Leaving lor Fast Today

KANSAS G04ERN0R 44 11.1. TRAVEL 414 CHICAGO TO SPEAK AT BIRTHPLACE

LONG WINTER COMING. SIGNS INFORM OI O-TI.MERS

BEDFORD. Ind.. Aug. 20. If it’s of any interest to you (he said, mopping his brow), the old timers here are predicting a hard winter. Squirrels are beginning to hoard what food they can get, tne corn silk is unusually heavy, the mors already is forming on the trees. These, say the weather wise, are signs of a long, cold season.

Sec. Wallace Confers W ith Mr. Roosevelt H4 r DE PARK, Aug. 20 (UP) Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. 4\’allace and officials of thc National Grange called at the summer 44'nlte House today for the second of President Roosevelt’s conferences on the drought situation in the middle west. Today’s visitors, following the group of administration experts who yesterday discussed drought in the light of re-employment and costs to the government, will lay before thc chief executive addittoril factual data with emphasis on ultimate crop prospects, crop loans, an ' the farm mortgage outlook.

20 Years Ago IN GREENCASTLE

Mr. and Mrs. VV. M. Sutherlin and son. and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Runyan arc enjoying an automobile trip through the northern part of the state. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Kelly motored to Danville and sp- nt the day. Lawrence Bryan has resumed his work at the Citizens National Bank after a two weeks vacation. Miss Alta Crump returned home after spending a week in Indianapolis. Russell Newgent is here from Indianapolis, the guest of his parents.

SI PPER 41 STATE HIGHWAY GARAGE; SPEAKING AT ( (II RT HOUSE ! Putnam county Democrats will i hold a political rally at thc state highway garage here Friday evening in charge of Carl Hurst, county chairman, and sponsored by the state highway and county highway employes of the district. Principal speakers durng the evening will be Mrs. Virginia F. Jenckes, Sixtli district representative in congress. and James D. Adams, chairman of the Indiana highway commission. A large crowd is expected as this is the opening gun of the 1936 Putnam county campaign. There will be a pitch-in supper at 5:30 o’clock and everyone is invited to come and enjoy the early social hour before the rally. This morning it was planned to hold the supper meeting at the State I Garage, but the speaking will be held in the court house, in order that more can be cared for and the speaking arrangements will he better. All who do not attend thc supper at the garage building, are asked to remember that the speaking will take place in the court house at eight o'clock. Flour Workers Strike; Picket Brain Elevators MINNEAPOLIS. Aug. 20 (UP) A strike of the Minneapolis flour and cereal workers union, atfectlng 600 terminal elevator workers today forced two of the city’s large mills to suspend operations because of grain shortage. Labor trouble developed on another front as the general drivers union of Minneapolis issued a call for a strike against 14 wholesale grocery firms. Picket lines of the striking grain workers were thrown around 30 terminal elevators and warehouses. GOV. OLSON WEAKER ROCHESTER, Minn., Aug. 20. (UP) Gov. Floyd B. Olsn, leader of Minnesota’s liberal farm-labor forces, was reported "somewhat weaker” today at St. Mary’s hospital where he is fighting for his life against stomach coneer.

ESTES PARK, Colo., Aug. 20 Governor A if M. Landon today completed revision of the three speeches he will deliver on his first Eastern campaign tour and departed early Thursday on a cross-country jaunt to Pennsylvania and New York. The speeches, expected to deal with problems of education, federal spending and thc opportunities of modern America, have been gone over, changed and polished repeatedly during his stay at McGraw Ranch in the Rocky Mountains. In them, the Republican presidential nominee will make his first specific appeals to the nation’s voters and. on his journey across more than half of thc nation and return to Topeka, hundreds of thousands of voters will get their first opportunity to see the prarie state Governor. But perhaps the most important days of the tour will be spent in Pennsylvania and New York. There are eighty-three electoral votes in those two Eastern states and in both of them Landon forces are waging a determined battle Landon will spend two days at his birthplace, West Middlesex, Pa , or in New York slate from Aug. 24 to 26. In that time h* plans to confer with hundreds of local an I state party leaders. Including many from West Virginia and Ohio. The Landon special train, equipped with every modern devise for a campaign tour, will leave La Salle, Colo . early Thursday with the Governor's party and a group <>f Colorado Republican leaders aboard. The Colorado party will travel as far as Julesburg. where a delegation of Nebraska Republicans will meet the train to make the trip to Omaha. Thursday night will be spent in Omaha, where the Governor will confer with local loaders and attend a breakfast Friday morning for party workers before leaving for Chi-

cago.

Three Nebraska towns Ogallala. Lexmgton and Central City have been added to the many brief stops which the Governor's train will make en route. The stops will be at Ogallala at 1:45 p. ni . Lexmgton at 4:55 p. m. and Central City at 7:15 a. in. In all, the train will make about fifty three-minute stops on the trip to Buffalo and back to Topeka. Among the many persons who will join the party for a brief while en route will be Mrs. Virginia Bacon of the women’s division of Republican Eastern headquarters and Miss Natalie Couch, head of the same group. They will travel with the party from 44'est Middlesex to Buf-

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Rescue Crews Dig Through Muck And Gas. “Gambler'll Chance” Held For Entombed Miners. MOBERLY. Mo., Aug. 20. (UP) — Miners working in short relays' burrowed slowly and painfully through thousands of pounds of muck and burned timbers today 'toward the low level of the Esry coal mine where four men were entombed more than 48 hours ago. They hope to break through into a room 35 feet wide ,md 100 feet long 110 feet below the surface by 1 p. m. today. It may he a tomb or a prison for the workers and the anxious watchers at the 'nine mouth had no indication whet’.ier the men were •dive or dead. The miners were naked to the waist, standing in slush, Co feet down a now shaft they cribbed when an old one collapsed during the fire Tuesday that trapped the men in a sloping tunnel where, it is hoped, ‘hey have sealed themselves against poisonous gases and eaving earth. Two great steel buckets with a capacity of 1.000 pounds of dirt, had 100 more trips tiefore the weary miners penetrate the level where the men were caught. “I still have hopes for the men,” Arnold Griffith, state mine inspector, directing tvsciie work. said. "They knew mines. If they sealed themselves in. they might still be living.” “There’s a gambler’s chance. If those men killed the mule they had with them, there is more likelihood they are living That mule would use the air that would keep five men

alive."

Fearful “white damp," more deadly than black damp, was found in the main shaft An air pump enabled the workers to stay down foi 20 minute

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Three men descend for each shift, two as workers, the othc“ as a safety man. The two shovel in the muck and slush and haul out the rotting, burned wood. The third stands by to revive, or replace either man if he

drops out.

The entombed men are Denimef Sexton. 37. part owner of the mine, Edward Stoner, Jr.. 27, son of the owner, A. VV. McCann, 50. and George T. Dameron, 27. a negroj The families of three McCann h&d relatives hail kept vigil above

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ground for the 48 hours. Thety sat quietly with the miners who awaited their turn in the shaft. Scores of babies and children were in the crowd of 1,500 at the mine mouth three of them daughters of men trapped in the ground. Edward Sioner. Sr., father df one of the men, virtually had given up hope, but said, “My son would not afraid down there." Stonei collapsed in the mine while leading one of the earlier rescue parties. Mrs. Sexton, dressed in gingham, patiently awaited word of her husband. 4Vith her was a six yenr old daughter Occasionally she rri«d and (lard-bitten silent miners aboirt her consoled her. She had been at the mouth of the mine day and night since hr husband was trapped. Dameron’s wife, a four months old baby on her shoulder, wept oftrn. It was hot on the surface, hotter in the mine, and the heat was not: helped by a powdery fine dust, that even a light rain yesterday dirt not (settle. 'Tiie rain fell only rlighUv her*\ but trenches were dug about the opening of the mine shaft so water could not run down into the mine, which had to lie pumped out several times. Mrs Robert Ziegleman nnd baby returned to their home 4Vednesday evening from the county hospital.

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